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  1. Administrative region of Scotland. area
  2. 26,100 sq km/10,077 sq mi towns Inverness
  3. (administrative headquarters), Thurso, Wick
  4. features comprises almost half the country;
  5. Grampian Mountains; Ben Nevis (highest peak
  6. in the UK); Loch Ness, Caledonian Canal;
  7. Inner Hebrides; the Queen Mother's castle of
  8. Mey at Caithness; John O'Groats' House;
  9. Dounreay (with Atomic Energy Authority's
  10. prototype fast reactor, and a nuclear
  11. processing plant) products oil services,
  12. winter sports, timber, livestock, grouse and
  13. deer hunting, salmon fishing population
  14. (1987) 201,000
  15.